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Nominet Trust Social Tech Seed pre application workshop
1. www.nominettrust.org.uk
Social Tech Seed: pre-application workshop
The Tetley, Leeds
dan.sutch@nominettrust.org.uk
@dansutch @nominettrust
http://www.slideshare.net/Dannno/pre-app-pres-autumn-2014
2. Our mission
We believe that the use of
digital technology can transform
the way we address big social
challenges, so we bring
together, invest in and support
people and organisations to do
this.
• Social investments and grants of c£5m per year
• Aim to demonstrate how digital technology can be used to redesign the way we address
persistent social challenges
• Aim to support (in addition to funding) to scale the social and economic impact
• Foundation charity of Nominet – the .UK domain registry (10m+ .uk websites)
• Direct relationship with Nominet’s public purpose & strength of their membership
8. Podnosh ‘Recording Real Lives’
Capturing voices of disconnected
people for social policy makers
Futuregov ‘Patchwork’
Supporting and improving
communication between key local
authority workers around the family
‘Make Things Do Stuff’
Encouraging young people to
become digital makers
‘Memory Box’
Collecting digital memories for
recollection activities for people
suffering from dementia
‘Discoverables’
Helping young people discover,
develop and demonstrate skills for
employability
Carers UK ‘Jointly’
Supporting time-poor carers to
manage caring responsibilities with
busy lives
13. Social Tech Seed
To discover, to help demonstrate and test the potential of a new approach
that uses digital technology to address a persistent social challenge.
Discover by bfishadow ccFlickr
14. Many examples of significant
tech-driven/tech-enabled
changes – where for social-tech?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore%27s_Law_-_2011.svg
15. It’s not just a lack of space suits...
The use of digital technology provides remarkable
opportunities to redesign how we address persistent social
challenges
This requires:
• Creativity and imagination for how else we might address
these issues
• Risk taking and testing of these new approaches
• Entrepreneurship and willingness
• Aspiration, persistence and tenacity
• (openness, collaboration...)
16. Redesigning our approach to social innovation
Affordances of
digital Tech
Social
Entrepreneurship
Designing from
‘first principles’
Consider together, the:
Affordances of digital technology
The values & energy of social
entrepreneurship and social business
Look again at the challenges and
redesign approaches
17. Introducing Social Tech Seed
Put simply, this funding programme has
been developed to help demonstrate the
potential of a new approach that uses
digital technology to address a persistent
social challenge. The fund aims to help
develop and test these early-stage ideas.
18. What we’re offering
Up to £50k investment – budget based on need
Support to develop, test and demonstrate your work
Personal/professional development links through our
Funder+ activities (£5k discretionary fund)
Links to our network of social-tech innovators
Potential further support and development if the approach
tests well (further investment, links etc)
An opportunity to build experience and a case for your idea
that can be presented for further development
19. What do you need?
Tested team with an idea, or an idea that has already (in
some way) been tested
Previous seed funding; tested prototype
An aspiration to address a social challenge through the use
of digital technology beyond this funding
Commitment to testing and developing your approach
An understanding of how this approach is different from
existing ways of addressing the social challenge
A way of developing the product/activity within a year
20. Stable and specific tech for market use; iteratively building on previous work to
extend market reach & user numbers or accessing new markets. Recruitment
of Board members and prep for investment.
Stable tech for market use; Established and confirmed partnership & routes to
market; evidence of demand and social value; customers confirmed and
further ongoing partnership conversations – weakness in one or two areas
needed to scale that can be addressed (eg marketing); development of
internal org infrastructure including senior appointments, legal, HR, finance.
Developed tech for use beyond testing group; developing sales and
supplier lists; demonstrating viability as alternative to current
provision though outcomes evaluation, partnerships, routes to market
and evidencing demand
Moving from MVP to beta; beginnings of Comms, PR and evaluation;
Demonstrating potential of new approach through co-design, early
partnerships and market testing
Idea generation; developing MVP and early testing;
venture formed.
21. Useful links
Social Tech Seed programme:
http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/how-to-apply/our-investment-programmes-0
http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/how-to-apply/assessment-criteria
This presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/Dannno/pre-app-pres-autumn-2014
Open for applications
23. Thanks for joining us...
Hope it was useful – more info at www.nominettrust.org.uk
Editor's Notes
Part of this is commissioning relevant research, documents and publications that can inform us, partners, future applicants and others working toward similar aims
Working in partnership
Developing programmes of funding/investment
165 funded partners
Discovery stage
Starting point for this is that there are already lots of examples of how digi tech have changed the way we communicate, buy and sell etc
Potential of digi tech –if we were to design how you access information now, knowing how much comp power you have in your pocket; design learning interactions; ways of reducing social isolation etc etc, perhaps we would do it differently.
Moore’s law – tech to get into space! – with this growth – how would wWhe begin to design what social care, education, addressing poverty, environmental action could look like in 5 years time?
What sort of action would you like to see in 5 years time – let’s start testing and developing it now.
We can expect Moore’s law to continue – so EXPLORE if you have a super computer in your pocket, sensor devices in your hand and environment how would you address social challenges? OR, another way of looking at this (William Gibson, future’s already here its just not evenly distributed) – if we imagine more people have current smartphones, internet access, tablets etc – how would we design approaches?
£500 tablet will cost under £100 in 4 years
.. . But this isn’t easy.
Properties of technology – ways in which they can be used...